Collar tab holder



March 19, 1935. p -n v 1,995,021

COLLAR TAB HOLDER Filed July 3, 1933 LYVENI'OR,

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Patented Mar. 19, 1935 UNITED STATES I mac-2i 1,995,021 COLLAR TABHOLDER Peter Beghetti, San Francisco, Calif. Application July 3, 1933,Serial, No. 678,813

4 Claims.

This invention relates to mens-collars of the vent the outward curlingof the tab as mentioned.

Other objects of the invention are simplicity and cheapness ofmanufacture, also such a device which may easily be applied to thecollar or removed, also one which will not be visible when in place.

In the drawing accompanying this application, several variations in formof the device are shown.

Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively plan and edge view of one form.

Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively plan and sectional view of another form.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of a further modification of the device, all madeof wire, the preferred form.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a mans collar in place on a shirt andwith my tab holder oi Fig. 5 indicated in place on the collar tabs, oneof the tabs being turned up to show more clearly just how it goes inplace.

Briefly described, the device comprises an elongated body with a hook orpin at opposite ends arranged to engage the inner layer of cloth of thecollar while the body of the device lies against the inner or undersurface of the collar to hold it fiat.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the body is a thin strip of metal 1 with its endsnotched as at 2 and folded over to form small loops as at 3, while atone long edge of the body is a thin spring steel wire 4 held firmly inplace by an ear 5 of metal from the body tightly crimped over it asindicated. This wire is provided with sharpened pins 6 bentsubstantially at right angles to the run of the wire and which normallyextend through the loops 3. Each pin extends thrcugh two loops andacross the notch or recess 2 as indicated, though the wire 4 may besprung out to position 4 to withdraw the pins.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the body 1 of the device is also of thin metal but withthe notches taking the form of round recesses 7 each surrounded by anoutwardly extruded neck 8 pierced at opposite points to pass the points6 of the pins 6', in a man: ner so that when a double layer of cloth 9,9 as of flexible collar is pressed into the recesses (when the pins arewithdrawn) the pins may be projected through the rear layer 9' only ofthe collar and thus hold these points separated and the collar tabs fiatyet be entirely concealed from a po sition in front when the collar isin place.

In Fig. 5 a device corresponding to that of Fig.

1 is shown, but it is, made entirely of spring wire. In this view thewirebody isdesignated 10 and is shown twisted together at 1'7 to holdthe wires in place. The pins are designated 11, their spring arms 12,the small loops through which the pins pass, 13,.the recesses 14. Thisconstruction is applied to the inner surface of the tabs of a collar inthe manner described for Fig. 4 and in the general position shown inFig. 6, it being understood that the devices are applied to the underside of the collar tabs before the collar is put on. The use of thesedevices will hold the'tabs of the collar flat and in position againstthe shirt as shown for the tab 15 of the collar 16 at the left of thedraw.- ing in Fig. 6. The other tab in this View is'turned up merely toshow the position of the wire form of my invention in place.

In the form shown in Fig. 5, it is to be noted that the pins 11 areextensions of the arms 12 and form outwardly projecting loops 17 wherethey are bent to extend at right angles to the arms 12, which loopsprovide means for easily grasp-. ingthe pins to withdraw them from thecloth of the shirt collar. 7

One of the features of the invention is the fact that the pins 11 aresufiiciently small to pass I through the cloth of the collar withoutbreaking the fabric, so that the collars are not injured in any way andcan be turned when worn without I 2. A collar tab holder comprising-a'flat.elon 1 gated body formed with a recess at each end, spring wirearms carriedby the body, each pro vided with a pin normally projectedacross the recess, by force of the spring, and a small loop adjacent therecess through which said pins pass, said body and arms all formed ofwire bent to form and tied together by twisting of the body wirestogether at a point intermediate the ends 1 of the body.

3. A collar tab holder comprising a flat elongated body formed with arecess at ,each end,

spring wire arms each rigidly secured at one end to the body and theopposite end provided with a pin normally projected across the recessadapted to be withdrawn from across the recess against the force of thespring, and a small loop adjacent the recess through which said pinspass.

4. A collar tab holder comprising a flat elongated body formed with arecess at each end, spring wire arms each rigidly secured at one end tothe body and at the opposite end provided with a pin normally projectedacross the recess adapted to be withdrawn from across the recess againstthe force of the spring anda small loop at opposite sides of each recessand through which loops said pins pass.

PETER BEGHE'I'II.

